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Q: Do I have to be native speaker to teach English literature?
Hi,
I'm an English language and literature teacher, huge fan of reading, and I'd love to relocate to China next school year. However, I'm not native. Can I still teach literature?
3 weeks 5 days ago in Teaching & Learning - China
You can still skin into China as a non-English native teacher by holding English Teaching license in your home country.
2nd: Your BA degree should be completed in a native English country.
Once, you fulfilled these 'parameters', you qualify for an English teaching job in China as a non-native English sneaker, i.e. Z - Entry/Working visa with Working and Residence permit later on.
See the last 'Answers Highlight' ---> there is a web link posted about 'requirements for teaching English language in China as a non-English native passport holder'.
https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/guide-teaching-english-china#paragraph-i...
*English proficiency: Passport from one of seven "native speaker" countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa). If you aren’t a native speaker, you’ll need to be a certified teacher in your home country with proof of your English proficiency (e.g. IELTS or TOEFL).
I'd say, Chinese will choose and look especially for a native English speaker at teaching of English Literature job openings.
Posted job adverts for English Literature teaching are most likely from International Schools in China.
Good luck!
You can still skin into China as a non-English native teacher by holding English Teaching license in your home country.
2nd: Your BA degree should be completed in a native English country.
Once, you fulfilled these 'parameters', you qualify for an English teaching job in China as a non-native English sneaker, i.e. Z - Entry/Working visa with Working and Residence permit later on.
See the last 'Answers Highlight' ---> there is a web link posted about 'requirements for teaching English language in China as a non-English native passport holder'.
https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/guide-teaching-english-china#paragraph-i...
*English proficiency: Passport from one of seven "native speaker" countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa). If you aren’t a native speaker, you’ll need to be a certified teacher in your home country with proof of your English proficiency (e.g. IELTS or TOEFL).
I'd say, Chinese will choose and look especially for a native English speaker at teaching of English Literature job openings.
Posted job adverts for English Literature teaching are most likely from International Schools in China.
Good luck!
There's another option:
You don't need to be a native English speaker to teach English literature in China, if you plan to conduct your lectures in Mandarin ...
... but than, there are approx. brazillion Chinese, who could ...
... Laugh-as-Hard-as-Me ... 
I'm not sure, how I've missed that option ... 
... anyhow, my pints count is now 1222, pron. 'one - tuu - tuu - tuuuu' ...
... phonetically very similar to a 'busy phone sound' ... 
Here comes "Did I tell you or what ...?"
Prof. Jiang Xueqin, Chinese-Canadian educator, Yale graduate, professor of English Literature and History with lectures in Mandarin and English at Moonshot Academy High school in Beijing ... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5cnf8DqJ_Q
Am-so-smart-er ...
